[sane-devel] Trying to get up to speed with a "Mustek PageExpress A3 USB 1200 PRO" ...
Gjermund Skogstad
developer at skogstad.org
Wed Nov 15 05:14:29 UTC 2017
Mandag 13. november 2017 07.16.20 skrev du:
> sudo sane-find-scanner, i e
>
Will do, just a bit busy right now.
I got tinking tho; how come MUSTEK distrubiting a back-end that's alledgedly
is broken?
http://www.mustek.com.tw/support/driver-manual-downloads.html#product=ScanExpress%20A3%20USB%201200%20Pro
ftp://ftp2.mustek.com.tw/pub/new/driver/0_Old%20Products/ScanExpress%20A3%20USB%201200%20Pro/Linux/1LV1019/A3USB1200Pro-040B-20141209.zip
So I've spendt some time researching their binary deb-package dated 2014 and
have got it working fine on 32bit 'buntu 12.04. I'm in process of compiling a
report on this research, planning to post it shortly (day or three), and are
planning to dis-assemble the packages (binaries/source) available from MUSTEK
to see if I get it to build on both 32 and 64bit 12.04. If this works the next
step would be to try getting it to build on current libs ...
I could be wrong, but I'm wondering if 'we' may have made a bit of a hash of
it trying to build it ... And this business of hacking it to one specific
scanner needs an audit. I'm not shure where I read it, but I wonder if it was
intended (by MUSTEK) to autodetect ...
I really don't know (all) the answers, but I feel we ought to :)
> 2017-11-13 7:16 GMT+01:00 Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <gjermundprivat at gmail.com
> > Can you run sudo sane-find-scanne in qira or strace and see what it does?
> >
> > 2017-11-13 7:14 GMT+01:00 Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <
> >
> > gjermundprivat at gmail.com>:
> >> https://github.com/Pardus-Kurumsal/xsane/search?utf8=✓&q=mustek&type=
> >>
> >> 2017-11-13 7:12 GMT+01:00 Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <
> >>
> >> gjermundprivat at gmail.com>:
> >>> I believe there is a source repo somewhere.
> >>>
> >>> 2017-11-13 3:16 GMT+01:00 Gjermund Skogstad <developer at skogstad.org>:
> >>>> Hi all.
> >>>> It's been 12 years since I last posted to a debian mailman list
> >>>> (deb-edu), and
> >>>> now it's in hope of getting somewhere useful with this Mustek A3
> >>>> scanner I've
> >>>> got on my table.
> >>>>
> >>>> To be honest; I'm properly confused. By searching the net for
> >>>> information on
> >>>> this scanner, I get the impression that either all work has stalled or
> >>>> I'm
> >>>> missing out on some important bits of information.
> >>>>
> >>>> About the scanner
> >>>>
> >>>> On the back if it, it reads "Mustek PageExpress A3 USB 1200 PRO".
> >>>>
> >>>> 'lsusb' says
> >>>> "Bus 002 Device 006: ID 055f:040b Mustek Systems, Inc. ScanExpress A3
> >>>> USB 1200
> >>>> PRO".
> >>>>
> >>>> 'sudo lsusb -v -d 055f:040b' starts off
> >>>> "Bus 002 Device 006: ID 055f:040b Mustek Systems, Inc. ScanExpress A3
> >>>> USB 1200
> >>>> PRO
> >>>>
> >>>> Device Descriptor:
> >>>> bLength 18
> >>>> bDescriptorType 1
> >>>> bcdUSB 2.00
> >>>> bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
> >>>> bDeviceSubClass 0
> >>>> bDeviceProtocol 0
> >>>> bMaxPacketSize0 64
> >>>> idVendor 0x055f Mustek Systems, Inc.
> >>>> idProduct 0x040b ScanExpress A3 USB 1200 PRO
> >>>> bcdDevice 1.00
> >>>> iManufacturer 1 Hewlett-Packard.
> >>>> iProduct 2 USB2.0 Scanner
> >>>> iSerial 0
> >>>> bNumConfigurations 1
> >>>>
> >>>> [...]"
> >>>>
> >>>> 'sudo usb-devices' gives
> >>>> "[...]
> >>>> T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 6 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
> >>>> D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
> >>>> P: Vendor=055f ProdID=040b Rev=01.00
> >>>> S: Manufacturer=Hewlett-Packard.
> >>>> S: Product=USB2.0 Scanner
> >>>> C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=100mA
> >>>> I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
> >>>> [...]"
> >>>>
> >>>> 'sudo sane-find-scanner' doesn't find it
> >>>>
> >>>> Nor does 'sudo scanimage -L' (obviously).
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver.pl?manu=mustek&mo
> >>>> del=&bus=any
> >>>> lists it as a "BearPaw 6400 TA Pro" ..?
> >>>>
> >>>> Various forums around claims this scanner to work with the mustek_usb2
> >>>> back-
> >>>> end, but all I can find in SANE-site says mustek_usb2 only supports a
> >>>> single
> >>>> scanner (for now).
> >>>>
> >>>> Although I've used SANE since the dark ages (-98), I'm no SANE-guru by
> >>>> any
> >>>> length. I'm a rusty developer, been out of the game for years due to
> >>>> health-
> >>>> issues, and haven't coded C other than hacking the odd SCSI-driver and
> >>>> scripting servers for remote management. So I might just be able to
> >>>> pitch in
> >>>> if wanted/needed, but will need help in getting into the
> >>>> SANE-architecture and
> >>>> libs coding C. (I have mostly worked with Java, C# and some
> >>>> web-development.
> >>>> Hacking some drivers and tracing crashes more than 15 years ago doesn't
> >>>> really
> >>>> help that much.)
> >>>>
> >>>> So I really want to get this thing working, I am willing and possibly
> >>>> even
> >>>> able to pitch in, but needs someone to ask seriously stupid questions
> >>>> to get
> >>>> going.
> >>>>
> >>>> Not so stupid questions (for now):
> >>>> Q1: What's the status on this scanner/these scanners back-end?
> >>>
> >>> The most recent clone I found on !gh https://github.com/Pardus-> >>> Kurumsal/xsane 14 days ago; did not check the origin of the repo though
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>>> Q2: Are there someone working on it now?
> >>>
> >>> I have no idea.
> >>>
> >>>> Q3: Are there available some architectural documents for SANE?
> >>>
> >>> http://www.xsane.org/doc/sane-xsane-doc.html
> >>>
> >>>> Hope you've got some time for all this
> >>>>
> >>>> :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Gjermund (Norway)
> >>>>
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